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Experienced Private Chef dedicated to creating menus that optimize physical performance and maximize overall potential.

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14 years

Intimate Dining Experience

10 years

Nutrition Experience

7 years

Private Chef Experience

CERTIFIED

The Art Institute of Michigan

Bachelor’s in Applied Science & Culinary Management
2012

Dean’s List Honors

NASM Nutrition Coach Certified

EXPERIENCED

Private Chef, UHNW Family
Cleveland, OH
Jun 2023 - May 2023

Responsibilities include managing a four-chef kitchen, oversight of weekly menus for family, staff, and guests, recipe development, sourcing the highest quality local ingredients, cooking lunch, dinner, dessert, and protein shakes daily, and adapting quickly to an ever-changing schedule. Travel up to 30% of the year. Cater several elaborate dinner parties, banquets, holidays, birthdays, and various themed events in the Hamptons.

Private Chef, NFL Wide Receiver
New Orleans, LA
Oct 2021 - Jun 2023

Responsibilities include managing a four-chef kitchen, oversight of weekly menus for family, staff, and guests, recipe development, sourcing the highest quality local ingredients, cooking lunch, dinner, dessert, and protein shakes daily, and adapting quickly to an ever-changing schedule. Travel up to 30% of the year. Cater several elaborate dinner parties, banquets, holidays, birthdays, and various themed events in the Hamptons.

Co-Founder, Fuel Your Tomorrow
Detroit MI, Sicily IT, and Traverse City MI
Jun 2012 - Oct 2021

Private chef for seven families around Metro Detroit (2012 - 2016) offering nutritional
coaching, grocery shopping, on-site and off-site cooking, and weekly meal development
catered to clients’ diet requirements.

 
Lived abroad in Italy (2016 - 2019) to provide nutritionally designed, weekly meals to active duty service members in need of nutritional improvement.
 
Owned and operated a Meal Prep Business (2019 - 2021) providing diet-specific, weekly meal plans to over 500 clients and families in Northern Michigan. Partnered with local wineries for weekly wine pairing dinners exclusively for club members.

Executive Sous Chef, Alta Strada
Washington D.C.
Jan 2016 - May 2016

Opened a new fine-dining Italian restaurant under James Beard Award-winning Chef,
Michael Schlow. Opened second restaurant, Conosci, a secret upscale Japanese Crudo
Bar with a menu changing daily.

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